What's in my fridge?

I'm not much of a cook. Most of what I make is overcooked, or undercooked (whatever makes that particular item taste worse) and I don't actually enjoy the act of cooking. I don't really care about the quality of the food I make at home, as long as it makes me feel full. I'm kind of picky about the food I eat out, but mostly I care if it has ingredients in it I can't eat. I don't really give a crap if it was locally sourced, if it is Jonathan Gold approved, or has a twitter following. I like food, but there's more to life. Breathing and sleep are more awesome than fusion tacos, but it's important to pay attention to what you cram in your pie hole.

I've been thinking a lot more about what I eat, as I get older, and as I become increasingly addicted to You Are What You Eat on BBC America. I'm totally hooked. My favorite part of the show is when Gillian McKeith loads up an 8 foot long table with everything that her fat person of the day has eaten in a week. They're British, so it's a lot of stuff that's brown, fried and full or cream or sausage. The only time you ever see anything green on the table is if there were some green peas in their Shepard's Pie. It's pretty gross, and it makes me feel like a superstar for making the dietary choices that I do. I am especially proud for getting back to eating organic veggies in larger quantities.

My beau, David and I went to the LA County Fair this year. We saw all kinds of gross food, got yelled at by a Shamwow sales rep, and got to hang out with tiny cows. In one of the 9 commercial buildings I was seduced by a hot, hapa sales rep from Farm Fresh to You.

I used to use another service like this, but dropped it when I found myself throwing out half of what was delivered because I could never get around to eating it all. I decided to sign up for this again because I've been growing tired of everything I eat at home coming out of a bag or a box, oh yeah, and because the guy signing me up for the service was dreamy - that closed the deal.

So far, the service has been great! I get the smallest box of mixed veggies and fruits, and everything delivered has been something I actually want to eat. Last night, motivated by not wanting to throw out any food, I whipped up a pretty tasty organic meal that I wouldn't be afraid to let someone else try to swallow.



I started with something I knew would be ready to eat quickly, so I sauteed up the bok choy that came in my delivery with some of these other ingredients.



It looks a lot prettier before it's cooked, but tastes so much better after!



While the bok choy was being made, I had some yukon gold potatoes, leeks, and mini heirloom tomatoes roasting. The tomatoes came from Trader Joe's and were on the outs - getting all shriveled up, but the leeks and potatoes were straight out of the organic delivery box. I don't really understand food stuff, but the tomatoes got un-shriveled while they were roasting. Either way, they made the potatoes and leeks delicious.



I wish I could say that my meal was washed down with this, but I had Pacifico instead, and chased everything with some super yum to the 10th power persimmons instead.

I think the eventual consumption of Lightning Bolt deserves its own blog altogether...